Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice and it won’t happen again.

Revenge games in the SEC, for the most part, often fall short of expectations due to the sheer number of nationally-ranked on the docket each and every Saturday. There are a couple rivalries however that always make for good TV, notably South Carolina-Georgia and Alabama-LSU.

If there’s one team Mark Richt hasn’t solved in recent years it’s South Carolina, a program that has beaten Georgia four times since 2010. The Bulldogs host the Gamecocks on Sept. 19, a must-watch revenge game with Eastern Division implications.

Nick Saban owns Les Miles in recent years, winning four straight (including the BCS championship game) since a 9-6 overtime loss in ‘The Game of the Century’ during the 2011 season.

For this exercise, revenge games are simply opportunities at beating a team that beat you the previous season, same year (Alabama vs. LSU, 2011; South Carolina vs. Auburn, 2010), or next meeting (Mississippi State vs. South Carolina, 2013). We’ve used win-loss data from coaches who have been at the same SEC stop over the last five seasons. Mizzou and Texas A&M were excluded since both entered the league in 2012.

SEC coach records in revenge games since 2010

  • Nick Saban, Alabama: 4-1 (.800; ultimate revenge in 2011 BCS title game)
  • Mark Richt, Georgia: 10-3 (.769; 4-0 in revenge games last season)
  • Les Miles, LSU: 7-3 (.700; all losses to Alabama)
  • Steve Spurrier, South Carolina: 8-5 (.615; including win over No. 1 Bama in 2010)
  • Dan Mullen, Mississippi State: 8-15 (.347; including 2011 and 2013 loss to S.C.)

LSU coach Les Miles faces ample opportunity at revenge this season after suffering four losses to Western Division rivals last fall, ultimately snapping his personal streak of five straight seasons with 10 or more wins.

Miles’ best revenge season in recent years came in 2010 when the Tigers avenged prior year losses to Florida, Alabama and Ole Miss during an 11-2 campaign.

Due to last year’s 7-6 slide, Steve Spurrier’s Gamecocks will play five revenge games this season. Preseason East favorite Georgia will have three — South Carolina, Florida and Georgia Tech — and would likely need to win all to be in the Playoff contention.

Alabama’s hoping its top revenge game is against Ohio State in the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes are the overwhelming favorite to repeat as national champions.